[Footnote 154: Hoadly in one sense may be regarded
as a ‘Freethinker’ himself; but it was
the very fact that he was so which made him resent
Collins’s perversion of the term. The first
of his ’Queries to the Author of a Discourse
of Freethinking’ is ’Whether that can be
justly called Freethinking which is manifestly thinking
with the utmost slavery; and with the strongest prejudices
against every branch, and the very foundation of all
religion?’—­Hoadly’s Works,
vol. i.]

[Footnote 163: ’There is a book called
The Moral Philosopher lately published.
Is it looked into? I should hope not, merely for
the sake of the taste, the sense, and learning of
the present age.... I hope nobody will be so
indiscreet as to take notice publicly of the book,
though it be only in the fag end of an objection.—­It
is that indiscreet conduct in our defenders of religion
that conveys so many worthless books from hand to
hand.’—­Letter to Mr. Birch in 1737.
In Nichols’ Literary Illustrations of the
Eighteenth Century, ii. 70.]

[Footnote 164: See Charles Churchill’s
lines on Warburton in The Duellist. After
much foul abuse, he thus describes The Divine Legation:—­